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From: Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o>
To: Jeremy Huddleston <eradicator@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Gentoo Core <gentoo-core@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Legalese of a new license (Monkey's Audio)
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 18:00:36
Message-Id: 1090432171.26338.3.camel@lisa.thedoh.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Legalese of a new license (Monkey's Audio) by Jeremy Huddleston
1 On Wed, 2004-07-21 at 13:19, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
2 > In a recent bug for Monkey's Audio Codec[1], the license file[2] seems
3 > to me like it would cause some problems. Section 2 states "The use of
4 > any of the Monkey's Audio source code or any component thereof from
5 > another program requires express written permission from the author of
6 > Monkey's Audio."
7 >
8 > To me, this sounds like the user would need written permission to emerge
9 > the package... Am I reading that correctly?
10 >
11 > [1] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52882
12 > [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=35862&action=view
13
14 (sorry for the dupe, Jeremy)
15
16 Perhaps it's time for a gentoo-legal mail list for such inqueries?
17 --
18 Regards,
19 -Lisa
20 <Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur>

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